CIOs: When your CxO peers need your help/partnership to succeed with their business initiatives that require digital capabilities .... What *actually* motivates you to invest your time and energy? Especially where you know you’ll need to invest significant personal time and energy to support their technology understanding, thinking, and decision making. Are you motivated by the opportunity to help a colleague and enjoy the experience or do you need more tangible benefits from your investment?
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COO in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago
I find this to be a curious question. In all of my prior CIO roles, I saw myself as an executive with an expertise in technology… not a technology executive. It is subtle, but the point is: my role was to support corporate initiatives to drive revenue, reduce costs, ensure compliance and customer/employee sat, etc. My goals were the same as the enterprise goals.Now, as a COO, I fully expect our CIO/CTO to prioritize the work that supports our growth or customer sat or whatever are our goals.
The short answer: I am motivated to do my job and support the common corporate goals.
CTO in Transportationa year ago
It depends on the colleague but I see it as part of my job. If I help them to succeed the company will be better off and eventually I as well.So while it depends on the particular person I may need to help I try to be professional and provide as much support as needed.
Senior Enterprise Architect, Application Consulting in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago
I agree with Anil and Henan, it's part of the job. In a CIO role I would also expect members of my team to provide digital transformation guidance to my C-level compadres. If the time/energy is significant, I can always guide them to consultants.CIO in Governmenta year ago
This is a curious question since it implies the IT staff can decide what to work on. In reality, any major organization will establish IT governance to direct and prioritize IT investments. At the Virginia Dept of Social Services, our IT governance is called the IT Investment Council (ITIC) consisting of the Executive Team. As a Deputy Commissioner for Technology, I have a seat at the table. It is the ITIC that determines what IT will work on. Once a project is approved, we then work jointly with our business partners to identify requirements, develop designs, implement projects, and place the new system into production, to be maintained by our staff or a contractor. The investment is in time is twofold: 1.Continued enhancements to our enterprise architecture. and 2. Continued development of relationships with business partners so they will trust us with their needs
Personal learning and helping the colleague is fine if time I spend justifies the end goal.